Exclusive: Godzilla the Ostrich

"An ostrich missed his 12-year‐old human companion so much that he escaped from his enclosure at an animal sanctuary and trotted a half‐mile through busy streets to wait outside the school gates.

Alarmed residents and car drivers tried to corner six foot‐tall Godzilla as he strode purposefully through the streets of Collier Row, near Romford, east London, but to no effect...." [copy from the Daily Telegraph 17/11/2001]

Taken shortly after the invasion of Afghanistan and the events of 9/11, news media lapped up this light hearted story about an ostrich on the loose. It made the papers in Britain and abroad as well as television news and magazine shows.